Blessed Augustine of Hippo
Against the Epistle of Manichæus, Called Fundamental
5th c.
Classic translation
Letters · English translation, 1890
Contents
- Title Page
- To Heal Heretics is Better Than to Destroy Them
- Why the Manichæans Should Be More Gently Dealt With
- Augustin Once a Manichæan
- Proofs of the Catholic Faith
- Against the Title of the Epistle of Manichæus
- Why Manichæus Called Himself an Apostle of Christ
- In What Sense the Followers of Manichæus Believe Him to Be the Holy Spirit
- The Festival of the Birth-Day of Manichæus
- When the Holy Spirit Was Sent
- The Holy Spirit Twice Given
- Manichæus Promises Truth, But Does Not Make Good His Word
- The Wild Fancies of Manichæus. The Battle Before the Constitution of the World
- Two Opposite Substances. The Kingdom of Light. Manichæus Teaches Uncertainties…
- Manichæus Promises the Knowledge of Undoubted Things, and Then Demands Faith in…
- The Doctrine of Manichæus Not Only Uncertain, But False. His Absurd Fancy of a…
- The Soul, Though Mutable, Has No Material Form. It is All Present in Every Part…
- The Memory Contains the Ideas of Places of the Greatest Size
- The Understanding Judges of the Truth of Things, and of Its Own Action
- If the Mind Has No Material Extension, Much Less Has God
- Refutation of the Absurd Idea of Two Territories
- This Region of Light Must Be Material If It is Joined to the Region of…
- The Form of the Region of Light the Worse of the Two
- The Anthropomorphites Not So Bad as the Manichæans
- Of the Number of Natures in the Manichæan Fiction
- Omnipotence Creates Good Things Differing in Degree. In Every Description…
- The Manichæans Are Reduced to the Choice of a Tortuous, or Curved, or Straight…
- The Beauty of the Straight Line Might Be Taken From the Region of Darkness…
- Manichæus Places Five Natures in the Region of Darkness
- The Refutation of This Absurdity
- The Number of Good Things in Those Natures Which Manichæus Places in the Region…
- The Same Subject Continued
- Manichæus Got the Arrangement of His Fanciful Notions From Visible Objects
- Every Nature, as Nature, is Good
- Nature Cannot Be Without Some Good. The Manichæans Dwell Upon the Evils
- Evil Alone is Corruption. Corruption is Not Nature, But Contrary to Nature…
- The Source of Evil or of Corruption of Good
- God Alone Perfectly Good
- Nature Made by God; Corruption Comes From Nothing
- In What Sense Evils Are From God
- Corruption Tends to Non-Existence
- Corruption is by God’s Permission, and Comes From Us
- Exhortation to the Chief Good
- Conclusion